John DeBree
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I confess; we're not an all-IH household. Although I'm semi-actively looking for an early Farmall, I turned to Ford to get the actual work done. I have a '65 Ford 3000 gasser. Attachments include a loader, mower, rear blade, 2 bottom plow, disc harrow, a wood chipper, and a spreader. I mostly got it to maintain our 450' of gravel driveway, but I've been busy trying to make an old messy pine woods into a field. After having it cleared of stumps, I've been plowing, discing, liming, liming, and liming. I'm planting a succession of crops to try to put something back into our poor red dirt. Fun project! Seat time is seat time. I use the wood chipper every fall, too. With 8 acres of woods, there's always stuff to be turned into chips. The wood chipper is more fun than it should be.
I don't mow with a CC, either. We have about an acre of weedy lawn, spread out over several acres. Lots of obstacles, up and down hill, just plain work. I bought a Husky zero-turn, and mowing day is fun now! Turns out a ZT is useless for pulling implements, so I recently got one of my old CC 'O's running to pull the small lawn spreader. I'm also using it to pull a 4' drag harrow around my project field to smooth it up a bit, and bury the seed I spread.
I don't mow with a CC, either. We have about an acre of weedy lawn, spread out over several acres. Lots of obstacles, up and down hill, just plain work. I bought a Husky zero-turn, and mowing day is fun now! Turns out a ZT is useless for pulling implements, so I recently got one of my old CC 'O's running to pull the small lawn spreader. I'm also using it to pull a 4' drag harrow around my project field to smooth it up a bit, and bury the seed I spread.